From my point of view, people should think about taking a step out for turning their important invention into an asset by bringing them out in the market. The inventor is usually caught with the question of what you want to do with your invention. Do you want to make or sell your invention? [...]
If we use USPTO’s statistic report, it looks like that only slightly more than 10 % of challenged claims are invalidated by PTAB, which is simply not true. Multiple petitioners will often group up to challenge single claim, which is why patent patent-owning entity like Zond can windup losing every one of 371 patents [...]
Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Sucampo), a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent for VTS-270, a novel and well-characterized 2-hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin (HPβCD) product, under investigation as an intrathecally administered treatment for Niemann-Pick Disease Type C1 (NPC-1). Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Sucampo), a global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that [...]
To promote the progress of science and the useful arts, the U.S. Constitution empowers Congress to grant authors and inventors an exclusive right in their respective writings and discoveries for a limited term. In the case of invention, society properly demands of the inventor a disclosure of how to make and use the invention. [...]
Facebook was granted a patent lately in march for a system that would allow it to build dating service into the site. The patent describes a way for facebook to identify friends of friends who might be single, based on “other commonalities or shared experiences.” When you see someone you like facebook would ask [...]
For many years the US patent trademark office accepted patent as property rights which have always been considered relevant until proven now. Recent court decisions changes in patent law, and adverse PTAB rules established by USPTO, have all resulted in challenges to long hold practice that had been previously supported the innovation community. Without [...]
